kultura sjećanja / remembrance culture
“Pieces for an Invisible Monument” - Patricia Morosan
Pieces for an Invisible Monument is a quiet symbol that resists monumentality: a reminder that memory may not always be anchored in stone, but can live in gestures, whispers, and fragile traces.
The intervention takes place in the Lindenstrasse Memorial, a former site of Soviet imprisonment. Through whispered recitations of Horst Schüppel’s poem In Untersuchungshaft, written during his incarceration in 1949, the performance reactivates the charged spaces of the prison cells, corridors, interrogation rooms, and courtyards.
By speaking his words back into the walls that once contained him, the work becomes both an act of remembrance and of invocation: memory emerges as fragile, embodied, and spatially inscribed. The whispering voice moves through the architecture like a trace, unveiling the resonance of lives once silenced and suggesting the possibility of an “invisible monument” - one that resists erasure and re-inscribes history into the present.
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Patricia Morosan is a visual artist (born in Romania, living between Berlin and Athens) working with photography, film, poetry, performance, and sound. Her work explores the duality of intimacy and identity, exploring polycentric practices and methods of emotional geography, ecology, and posthumanism. She studied photography at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles /Off, Fotohaus Paris-Berlin; Pavillion Populaire Montpellier; Goethe Institute Bucharest, Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest; Haus am Kleistpark, various state galleries and cultural centres in Berlin, including Franzkowiak gallery; Kunsthalle Lund, InterArts Center Malmö/Sweden; Benaki Museum, Metamatic TAF, TV ControlCenter (KET), Athens; Galerie Macadam, Cite International des Arts and Atelier Varan, Paris; Franciscaine Museum Deauville, Villa Perochon Niort, France; at 12-14 contemporary/FotoWien; Video Art Festival Gabes, the Noorderlicht International Festival, Netherlands, ICR Galerie Lisbon and at Foto Forum, Bolzano. She has received numerous grants and multiple awards. Her works are in both state and private collections. She published three monographs: Sun Stands Still, dienacht Publishing, 2017, Leipzig, (I) Remember Europe, Fotohof editions, 2022, Salzburg, and Telepoetics: Practices of Intimacy at a Distance, sun/sun editions, 2024, Montpellier.
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Conception, Production, Text & Performance: Patricia Morosan
Camera & Video edit: Uli M Schueppel
Soundscapes & Sound mix: Cosmo Schueppel
Lyrics: Horst Schueppel
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Artistic interventions are part of the Creative Europe project (In)Visible Traces. Artistic memories of the Cold War.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
